[Ambassadors] Introduction

[Rahul Sundaram]

Luke Satin wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm new here too, so let me introduce myself:
> I'm a 19 years old software developer based Ostrava, Czech Republic.
> 
> I'm also a member of OSS Alliance organisation (www.oss.cz 
> <http://www.oss.cz>) - OSS provides
> open-source support mainly for the Czech government. It's goal is to 
> replace proprietary document formats
> such as MS Word with OpenDocument Format which has been approved as an 
> ISO norm recently. Replacing few
> proprietary desktop apps with opensource ones is the first step to Linux.
> 

Oh, forgot to add this. Getting open formats such as Open Document as a 
standard in government agencies has far reaching implications much more 
that merely a Windows to Linux transition. The assurance that data 
generated through tax payer's money is always stored in a format that is 
available for the public, easily retrieved decades from now and easily 
indexed etc is extremely critical for common welfare.

Red Hat has a few notes on this subject

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/video_szulik/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1819239,00.asp

I believe more is on the pipeline. One of the recent interesting changes 
is the move to supply a web browser extension for the ODF format.

Rahul